HN should make displaying your karma in the header optional. I see no benefits to it other than creating a score some people want to game. In theory this would

HN should make displaying your karma in the header optional. I see no benefits to it other than creating a score some people want to game. In theory this would be good, if the way to game the score was to write thoughtful and helpful comments. In practice, as noted in this post: > Affirming the political and moral opinions of the average HN reader is the easiest way to get upvotes. It's easy enough to hide this text using something like uBlock, but I'd rather it were just a thing everybody could toggle. Maybe even turn it off by default.